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• v  lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force
• v  adopt for military use

• militarize

• demilitarize
• demilitarise

Quotes

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• Ismail Haniyeh in Gulf Times
  We don't want to militarise society, we don't want a police state,said Haniya, whose militants seized Gaza in June after overrunning forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of the rival Fatah movement.
• President Bush in The Age
  The United States is not going to militarise the southern border. Mexico is our neighbour and our friend,Bush said.
• Richard Danzig in Melbourne Herald Sun
  There's been a tendency in this administration to militarise national security, to use the military as the mode of response that addresses all problems,Mr Danzig said by telephone from his home in Washington.